Assignment 111 -- Apiant Hangs with "Validating your entries"

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Hi,

For Assignment 111 in the training, it seems that Apiant hangs with a spinning Apiant icon and a message, “Validating your entries…” when creating the trigger for the second automation.

I did copy and paste the collector name from the first automation, so I don’t think I made a typo there. Also, I picked the option “All New Items in Bucket” when making the second automation.

I did restart my computer and disable my cache.

Ben

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Hmm, I will need the steps you are doing so I can reproduce.

You can also do some troubleshooting yourself by running the automation editor in debug mode via https://dev.apiant.com/?debug=true

A debug window will appear. Any errors in red are usually bad, especially if you see one when the UI hangs. Usually that means a JavaScript error has happened and the UI cannot recover.

Running the automation editor in debug mode is also useful when you are building app/trigger/action assemblies and something doesn’t work as expected when constructing automations or connecting accounts. You can trace the execution of the assemblies via the debug window.

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Hi Robert,

OK, here are some steps. I think I’m just following the steps in assignment 111.

  1. In the Automation Editor, I clicked Create Automation.
  2. I clicked the plus icon on the left hand side, the trigger side, and searched for “URL”. I selected the resulting icon that is called, “URL” and select “Any XML or JSON data fetched” in the box that appeared.
  3. I copied and pasted the URL for the web service that I created for assignment 101; I got that URL by opening the Assembly Editor in a new tab and eventually right-clicking my 101 assembly and selecting the Get Web Service URL option. Back in the Automation Editor, I inputted that URL and then clicked “Fetch Data”. NOTE: when trying to follow these steps just now, Apiant also hangs with a “Fetching data” message at that point. Last week it wasn’t doing that.
  4. On the right hand side, I clicked the plus icon, searched for “Collector”, selected “all new items into bucket” and then named it, “BenAssignment111Collector”.
  5. I saved that automation, named it “BenAssignment111”, and turned it on.
  6. I then created a new automation.
  7. I searched for a Collector item on the left hand side, the trigger side, and entered “BenAssignment111Collector” as the name. I then clicked the OK button.

At that point, the system seems to hang on “Validating your entries…”

I did just check the debugger, and I see the following error message:

Mon Dec 10 2018 12:50:42 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Assembly [All new items in bucket] Module [Text Entry Parameter (Validated) #1] Invoking validation subassembly with value [BenAssignment111Collector]
ERROR @appModules/_mixinSubmodule.lzx≈458: TypeError: Cannot read property ‘p’ of null

That’s the exact same error message I see when doing the step to input the web service URL in the URL trigger, which was my step 3:

Mon Dec 10 2018 12:54:47 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Assembly [Any XML or JSON data fetched] Module [Text Entry Parameter (Validated) #1] Invoking validation subassembly with value [https://dev.apiant.com/appExec?tenant_uuid=&person_uuid=9f5dcfc3b2334f438183d21a33f28790&assembly_uuid=c05b826e86fa4d5a82c9214335bd72e9]
ERROR @appModules/_mixinSubmodule.lzx≈458: TypeError: Cannot read property ‘p’ of null

Thanks,
Ben

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Sorry, was a bug introduced by this weekend’s system upgrade.

I have patched the dev system with a fix. Clear your browser cache and reload the automation editor to get the patch.

Let me know if fixed or not, thanks.

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It’s working now, thanks!